The United Nations water conference started this week. Co-hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan, the three-day event will take place…
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[]A stunning brick tomb thought to be more than 800 years old has been discovered in northern China by workers…
Screenshots of snack drawer restock videos on TikTok. Credit: TikTok Neatly aligned glass spice jars tagged with printed white labels.…
Illustration of the early ichthyopterygian whose remains were found in SpitsbergenEsther van Hulsen The oldest fossils of an ichthyosaur ever…
Mathematics is the language that lets us describe the universe. Galileo Galilei was already convinced of that in the 16th…
CLIMATEWIRE | The president of one of the world’s largest insurance brokers warned Wednesday that climate change is destabilizing the insurance…
China’s stricter clean heating policies have improved air quality in northern China, particularly in Beijing and surrounding cities- potentially reducing…
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is currently not plausible, as is shown in a new study released by…
A micrograph of oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer tissue, showing slowly dividing cancer cells (red) that resist treatment, the cells’ nuclei…
New UC Riverside research suggests nitrogen released by gas-powered machines causes dry soil to let go of carbon and release…
A front page story in The New York Times on July 2, 1971, with details about the conflict in Congress…
Every degree of warming translates to 7% more water vapour in the air, but rainfall can increase by 20% or…
People who are discharged after a hospitalization involving sepsis were at greater risk of cardiovascular events, rehospitalization for any cause…
Advances in IoT technology have made it possible for us to easily and continually obtain large amounts of diverse data.…
JONATHAN OPPENHEIM likes the occasional flutter, but the object of his interest is a little more rarefied than horse racing…
Graphical abstract. Credit: Biological Conservation (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109853 A group of researchers supported by FAPESP analyzed 192 news reports published…
A new antimicrobial suture material that glows in medical imaging could provide a promising alternative for mesh implants and internal…
Five years ago, NASA’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope helped discover a family of seven rocky exoplanets orbiting the same star,…
Millions of rocks orbit within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but only some fly relatively close to Earth. NASA…
A chip developed in the study. Credit: Grigorii Likhachev (EPFL) Scientists at EPFL and IBM have developed a new type…
This weekend, you can watch live as the first asteroid ever discovered passes across one of the night sky’s most…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With increasing rates of extinction and biodiversity loss across the globe, scientists are debating whether we…
After several years of agreements and plans to limit global warming, we are still way off track. This is one…
A genomic study of a sustained, multidrug-resistant Shigellosis outbreak in Seattle enabled scientists to retrace its origin and spread. Additional…
Health professionals are investigating an outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant microbe found in certain bottles of lubricating eye drops, or artificial…
Iridescent ghost catfishNan Shi, Xiujun Fan, and Genbao Wu. We now know how ghost catfish get their rainbow shine. These…
SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify Listen to Episode One of this three-part Science, Quickly Fascination here. Transcript Allison Parshall: As a kid, I was…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Whether they like it or not, companies are increasingly judged by their impact on society and…
Bacteria living on meat may be causing urinary tract infections (UTIs) — potentially around half a million per year in…
Floppy crystals. Salts that contain water in their crystalline structure can become soft and floppy. Credit: UvA When we think…